The issue has been covered by The Verge, Buzzfeed, and other outlets and appears to be a widespread bug as thousands have reported their own “death.”

Gizmodo is also reporting that real memorialized accounts have been going back to “regular” profiles status, whereas falsely memorialized accounts have been brought back to life. Additionally, some people are seeing their account go back to normal (like mine is now), but then other friends who didn’t have a memorialized account are now seeing the alert pop up on their profile.

Ironically, this issue speaks to a few episodes of this season of South Park that treated a few characters as dead when they decided to quit social media:

After SEJ Social Producer Caitlin Rulien and I were resurrected, I left her this note:

We encourage everything to take this second chance at life and go volunteer, pet your dog, or hug your family and friends. ❤️

The story is developing and we will update this article if and when we get more information.